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I'm currently trying to explore a scenario inwhich Louis II of Hungary doesn't die at the Battle of Mohács. Putting aside the exact developments concerning Hungary itself, what I wish to discuss here is the potential butterflies West of the Leitha. This is what I settled on so far: Margaret of...

The Wittelsbachs under Emperor Louis IV. Probably could absorb Austria and the other Habsburg territories. Supposedly this would make the Wittelsbachs a much more powerful dynasty and probable rivals to the Luxembourg dynasty in Bohemia and Hungary. As for policies we could see a Wittelsbach...

Charles VI being a claimant to the Spanish throne had a birthright to the Spanish Empire. In the end, he had to give up his dream of ruling the Spanish Empire. But what if Charles got New France as compensation of renouncing his claim to the Spanish throne? An Empire for an Empire. New France...

What if during the Revolution of 1848, the Frankfurt Parliament decides to offer the German Crown to the Emperor-King Franz Joseph with the understanding that only Austria and Bohemia would become part of the German state and the Habsburg's non-German lands would be reorganised in personal union...

This is a bit of a long winded one, but the idea came to me and I think it’s a really interesting one, so here we go: In otl, Philip of Bavaria, Duke of Palatine-Neuberg, tried to win Mary’s hand in marriage for some time, though he ultimately failed due to Mary’s reluctance and later Henry’s...

Coat of Arms and Image of Archduke Charles of Austria as Charles III of Spain Lore of the althistory "Victoria Austracista": In 1707, the Allies of Archduke Charles triumph in Jativa [Battle of Almansa OTL], maintaining control over the Kingdom of Aragon and that in the end, in the face of the...

Hapsburg Charles V ruled the Americas through Spain and the Holy Roman Empire through Austria but gave up Austria to his brother Ferdinand II because he became very ill at a young age and feared he wouldn't survive to his heir's adulthood. His son Phillip II succeeded him in Spain and married...

A strange situation of the Habsburg brothers, Charles V and Ferdinand I is that while Charles V and his wife Isabella of Portugal had only three surviving children, Ferdinand I and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary had thirteen children, all of whom reached adulthood, which what would happen if...

PoD is 1) Albert I of Habsburg being successful in taking the Counties of Holland and Zeeland for the Habsburgs following John of Hollands death as he planned IOTL and more importantly 2) his son Rudolph surviving as King of Bohemia. What happens next?

What if the Holy league followed up on their victory at the battle of La Motta during the third Italian war? What would have been the ramifications of taking advantage of Venice's blunder? Considering Maximilian and Ferdinand wanted to install a relative in the Duchy of Milan rather than...

Catherine was daughter of Czech King George of Poděbrady and wife of Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus, who died in childbirth in 1464. Lets assume she survived and her son too. What is going to happen then? Matthias and George were allied at the time, but eventually Matthias turned against...

The League of Cognac was an alliance between France, the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, the Kingdom of England, the Duchy of Milan, and the Republic of Florence against the Habsburgs under Charles V, who recently became Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. However, it did not fair too...

Edward, Prince of Wales dies of quartan fever/malaria in October 1541,and King Henry VIII is dead by 1542 along with James V due to shock/grief/infected leg ulcer. Anyway, with no male heirs sired by Henry left, Mary seizes the throne and in 1543, marries Philip, King of Naples and Sicily...

PoD is vert easy-some unfortunate accident happens to Emperor Charles V, resulting in his premature death in summer 1527, ending personal union between Spain and Holy Roman Empire much earlier than IOTL. So baby Felipe II is heir of Spain and Burgundy (with Isabella of Portugal as regent in...

I love alternate unifications of Italy, but based on my research, it seems that next to the Savoyard state, the only Italian polity both willing and able to unify Italy was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, led by Leopold II of Habsburg-Tuscany (a local Italian branch of the Habsburgs, much like the...

What if the German Basic Law adopted in 1949 would have allowed the Bundesländer to decide their own form of government and consequently Bavaria would have restored its monarchy? I read the idea of Wittelsbach restoration was very popular at the time, and it only didn't materialise because of...

Like it says on the tin. Could Austria be the one to unify Germany in the 19th century, rather than Prussia? The elephant in the room in this scenario is the fact only a quarter or so of their empire's population is German, could that be handled somehow? Perhaps by giving Hungary and other...

The pregnancy of Queen Marie Louise of Spain surprised herself most of all: she knew she was not a virgin, but she had thought she would die without ever having had any children. She had quietly bore the criticism of the childless state of her marriage, even when she wanted to scream that it was...

Whenever I see people pondering what would've happened had the Jagiellonian Dynasty survived past Sigismund II Augustus it involves him fathering children. For all we know Siggie could've been infertile (he was married 3 times and had no children), although that is just a personal opinion. I've...

Let's say that rather than being a populist merely seeing religion as a tool, Hitler remains a devout Catholic loyal to the Habsburgs while still a pan-germanic anti-Semite? Would Hitler be able to restore the German monarchy under the Hapsburgs or would he have to remain in Austria and settle...